Zaozhuang University is a public full-time undergraduate university, established in 1971 and upgraded to a undergraduate university in 2004. At present, there are more than 20,000 full-time students on campus with over 1400 teaching staff and 14 national high-level talents. The university is composed of 22 teaching colleges (departments), offering 68 undergraduate majors, as well as an integrated, inter-supported and coordinated application-oriented discipline professional system, covering 10 courses including literature, science, engineering, management, education, history, economics, law, art, and agriculture. The university aims to build "the first-class application-oriented university in China", and the collaborative education project of integration of production and education has achieved remarkable results. In cooperation with the Planning and Construction Center of the Ministry of Education, 7 production-education integration bases have been built on campus which are at the forefront of nationwide universities. The university is undertaking the project construction unit for granting master's degree in Shandong Province, the 1st batch of postgraduate joint training base in Shandong Province, and the 1st batch of supporting units for the construction of application-oriented undergraduate universities in Shandong Province. Doctoral students are being jointly trained in the university in cooperation with Tianjin University, and master's joint-trained students with Qufu Normal University, Qingdao University of Technology, Liaocheng University and else. For four consecutive years, the school has won the title of "Advanced Unit of Enterprise-School Cooperation in Training Talents in Shandong Province", "The Most Characteristic Undergraduate University in Shandong Province". It has also achieved the title of "The Most Influential Undergraduate University in Shandong Province" for three years in succession. Zaozhuang University ranks 360th nationally in the 2022 China University of Shanghai Rankings. Zaozhuang University has established partnership relationship with 69 universities and educational institutions based in 18 countries and regions like Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia, and has carried out projects such as mutual credits recognition, students exchange and international student education with academic qualifications. The school has cooperated with the South African Center for Chinese Culture and International Education Exchange and the South African Ministry of Higher Education to carry out the "Internship+ Practical Training" program for South African students, and carried out undergraduate education for students from Bangladesh and other countries, with 490 person-time various foreign students from 10 countries undertaking the courses.
枣庄学院是公立全日制本科高校,于1971年开始办学,2004年升格为普通本科院校。目前拥有全日制普通在校生两万余人。现有教职工1400余人,拥有国家级高层次人才14人。学校设有教学院(部)22个,现有普通本科专业68个,构建了文学、理学、工学、管理学、教育学、历史学、经济学、法学、艺术学、农学等10大学科交叉融合、相互支撑、协调发展的应用型学科专业体系。
学校以“国内一流应用型大学”为奋斗目标,产教融合协同育人工程成效显著。与教育部规建中心合作打造了七个产教融合基地,学校产教融合、协同育人工作走在了全国高校的前列。学校是山东省硕士学位授予立项建设单位、山东省首批研究生联合培养基地,山东省应用型本科高校建设首批支持单位,与天津大学联合培养博士研究生,与曲阜师范大学、青岛理工大学、聊城大学等高校联合培养硕士研究生。学校连续四年获得“山东省企校合作培养人才先进单位”“山东最具办学特色本科院校”称号,连续三年获得“山东最具行业影响力本科院校”称号。学校在软科2022年中国大学排行中,排名第360位。
学校与来自欧洲、美洲、亚洲、非洲、澳洲等18个国家和地区的69所高校和教育机构建立了校际合作关系,开展学分互认、学生互换、学历留学生教育等项目。学校与南非中国文化和国际教育交流中心及南非高教部合作开展了“实习+实训”留学生培训项目、与孟加拉等国开展本科生学历教育,招收10个国家各类留学生490人次来校学习。